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in and of itself.
Reflecting on what you did each day, and the thoughts that arose dealing with the people and situations you dealt with that day are the memory book of your life.
Over time you will see the shift in yourself as your perspectives clear, harden, or become malleable

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"You shouldn't give circumstances the power to rouse anger for they don't care at all." - Marcus Aurelius
#stoic #stoicism

The Roman Stoics are known to us through their writings, and most specifically, their journals.
If you want to know yourself, record yourself, every day. What you did, why you did it this way on this day, different from previous days. Your thoughts about yourself.

#stoic

September 16th: Anyone Can Get Lucky, Not Everyone Can Persevere

“Success comes to the lowly and to the poorly talented, but the special characteristic of a great person is to triumph over the disasters and panics of human life.”
—Seneca, On Providence, 4.1

Excerpt From
The Daily #Stoic
Ryan […]

Every day I say goodbye.

I give him a kiss on the head.

Because I know anyday now.

I'll arrive, and he'll be dead.

#poetry
#stoic
#love

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James
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where my pen went today: time (2)
…
Time is not a thing.
The thing is the doing:
your life, the accretions of all those doings.
Time is the metric
the how much of your life was given over
to all those doings.
That is your legacy: what you did in your life.
…
#poem: #poetry #stoic #stoicism
©ilinkcs

where my pen went today: time

…
if you can't find time for yourself,
then you appease your conscience by
using your time to hide yourself from yourself

If every moment of your life is spent elsewhere,
then where are you in your own life?
…

#poem #poetry
#stoic #stoicism
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"A thing is neither better nor worse for having been praised." - Marcus Aurelius
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